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Free Talk Live => General => Topic started by: ox on November 20, 2010, 01:26:58 AM
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"Well, Lt. Barber became very arrogant, you know, very very arrogant with me, like, look I don't have to answer your questions, this is the way we do it. You don't like it, you know, that's just like too bad. So I responded to him, you know, you're really being [an] asshole. And he took great exception to that....He said to me, `You can't talk to me like that in my building.' I said to him — I responded, I said, `What do you mean I can't talk to you like this in your building.' I said, `This is ...' — this is — `I'm exercising my freedom of speech.' I said, `This is the United States of America and we have freedom of speech here and if you don't like it you should move to another country.'
[He answered], `Well, not in my building,' again, very adamantly. `Not in my building,' just like that. And that's when I told him, I said, `Well, if that's how you feel you're really stupid.' And that's when he turned to me and said, `You're under arrest.'"
When one of the officers took his arm, Mr. Greene testified, "things just went ballistic." The upshot was that he was sprayed with oleoresin capsicum (commonly known as pepper spray) while both of his arms were being held by the officers. Blinded by the chemical agent, he began stumbling across the lobby...Mr. Greene was charged with creating a disturbance, in violation of Grand Rapids Code Section 9.137, and with hindering and opposing a police officer. A Michigan jury ultimately acquitted him of both charges.
Anthony C. GREENE, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Jack BARBER, Edward Hillyer, Victor Gillis, William Hegarty, and the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 01-1247. (http://openjurist.org/310/f3d/889/greene-v-barber)
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Argued: August 1, 2002.
Decided and Filed: November 8, 2002.
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an 8 yr old (boring) story?
whats your point?
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an 8 yr old (boring) story?
whats your point?
I watched the frost melt off the grass.
This just happened........................... today.
Happy now? :lol:
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Grand Rapids police are usually more neutral-bad than outright terrible, but I imagine the higher-ups are pretty nasty. The Staties are where the real bastards are.